Museums in and around Meran
From Ötzi the Ice­man to the Ty­rolean free­dom fight­er An­dreas Hofer  South Ty­rol has his­to­ry! And it has sto­ries ...

Mu­se­ums in the re­gion do an im­pres­sive job telling you both. There are 80 be­tween Bren­n­er and Salurn­er Klause, a few of the most fa­mous right here in the neigh­bor­hood ...
The South Ty­rol Mu­se­um of Archae­ol­o­gy (Ötzi) in Bozen and the An­dreas Hofer Mu­se­um in his na­tive val­ley, Pas­sei­er. Or the his­to­ry of tourism at the Touri­se­um in Schloss Trautt­mans­dorff cas­tle. Not to for­get Cas­tle Ty­rol and - di­rect­ly op­po­site the mouth of Pas­sei­er Val­ley - the Schloss Schen­na cas­tle.

An in­sid­er's tip: there’s a mu­se­um in Partschins ded­i­cat­ed to Peter Mit­ter­hofer, the in­ven­tor of the type­writ­er. The Frauen­mu­se­um (the Mu­se­um of Wo­m­en) in Mer­an should al­so not be missed. Here you’ll dis­cov­er Eu­rope's most com­plete col­lec­tion of wo­m­en's cloth­ing: dat­ing back to 1820 - worth view­ing, a lit­tle odd and to­tal­ly en­gag­ing!